Category Archives: Local News

For Immediate Release IDFPR Releases Annual Consumer Lending Trends Report CHICAGO - The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Financial Institutions has announced ...

Thursday, January 5, 2023, Ed Dowd, Executive Director of the Mattoon Chamber of Commerce was a guest on 101.3 WMCI. Here is a brief description of what he covered during the interview: Emerald Acres ...

For Immediate Release Washington Savings Bank holds "Reverse Advent Calendar" to Collect Items for Local Food Pantries In an effort to help local food pantries this Holiday season the employees of Was...

For Release State Receives Donation of Large, Modern Office Building in Marion, Illinois, Valued at $4.5 Million MARION, IL - Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Central Management Ser...

For Release MHS Student Selected to Serve on PBS Student Reporting Labs Advisory Team Mattoon High School Student, Aydin Tariq was recently selected to serve on the first-ever PBS Student Reporting La...

For Release HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital Welcomes Two New Board Members EFFINGHAM- HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital announces the addition of two new members to the hospital's Board of Dir...

For Immediate Release Illinois State Police Announce Results of Alcohol Countermeasure Enforcement Surveillance Details Effingham, IL - Illinois State Police (ISP) Zone 8 Investigations Commander Ryan...

For Release MMS Art Students Create Artwork to Display at Lift This past fall, 8th-grade art students at Mattoon Middle School were invited to submit artwork to decorate the walls of the new restauran...

For Release SBL Holiday Festival Raises Record Amount The Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Foundation raised $150,000 during the annual Holiday Festival to support its Hospice House campaign, "The Most Impor...

SAIL (Soyland Access to Independent Living) will offer personal assistant training from 1:00-4:00pm on Thursday, January 12, 2023, at their office in Charleston. Registration is required prior to the ...